India, April 26 -- Six sanitation workers were killed and five others critically injured on Saturday morning after a speeding pickup van ploughed into them while they were cleaning the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway near Ibrahim Bas village in Firozpur Jhirka, police said.

The incident took place around 10 am when the workers were engaged in routine maintenance work along the high-speed corridor. The driver of the pickup van fled leaving the vehicle at the spot.

The impact of the collision was so severe that the bodies of the deceased were mutilated, with body parts scattered across the accident site, spokesperson of Nuh Police Krishan Kumar said. "Our teams have collected the body parts and are currently identifying which part belongs to whic...